Stefan Amthor, Lead Facilitator

Stefan and Sarah act as our ceremony leaders, workshop directors and co-directors of the retreats.

They bring many years of focused plant medicine study, experience and space holding. They design and lead breathwork & meditation practices, shamanic ceremony facilitation, and impart holistic wellness practices from all parts of the globe.

Stefan’s work is to hold judgment-free space and lead guests to find their true mind, body and soul connection. As the wellness director, he uses his skills as a Yogi,  breathwork facilitator, and integrative meditation teacher to design a unique program for each retreat.

In the past 10 years, he has traveled several times around the planet seeking answers to questions he wasn’t able to express verbally. At all times, there was a sense of more, a sense of, “I am more than what I’ve been taught to believe I am”.

He started his journey by studying all kinds of different cultures, philosophies, and systems of belief. He joined various ceremonies from Asia, and Europe across the blue waters up to Central and North America. He studied with Gurus, teachers, shamans, healers, and many others on the medicine path. What He found changed his outlook on life and himself in the most profound way.

At The Buena Vida, he is a healing masculine energy in part of this wonderful group of female shamans. He is honored to watch as they not only help to heal individuals but the whole world in its entire being. As an integral part of existence, he recognizes his place as a male in those times and steps back to let the intuitive way of nurturing unfold.

His part in this work is to hold space, to protect the incredible possibilities of this intuitive healing work, but as well express his own experiences in this creation. He does this as a Yoga therapist, Kundalini and Breathwork Expert, meditation teacher, and Inspirational speaker.